(left to right) Baton Rouge Mayor-President Jack Christian, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana (1966-1977) Alvin Rubin and New Orleans Mayor Chep Morrison. Location unknown. Date: March 12, 1958

Camp Fire Girl Frances Broussard helps her father Evest Broussard to a cold drink at the annual Daughter-Dad picnic at City Park in Baton Rouge, La. The picnic was sponsored by District III of the Leaders Association of the East Baton Rouge Camp...

Foundation of Boehringer's residence with the Baton Rouge Academy African American school in distance [a brick structure erected in 1906 on 16th Street by the Fourth District Baptist Association]. Located on Goldenrod Avenue (now Park Blvd.) Baton...

Glasgow Junior High School openned in 1954 and was (and is still) located at the corner of Glasgow Ave and Hyacinth Ave in the Southdowns neighborhood of Baton Rouge. The school was openned to accomodate white elementary suburban children of that...

Governor John McKeithen signs a proclamation making November Muscular Dystrophy month in Louisiana. With him are Terry Ryan age 6, Mrs. Maude Romain, first vice president of the Baton Rouge Chapter of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, Henry...

Henson Moore (b. October 4, 1939). Republican representative of the 6th Congressional District from 1975-1987. Served as deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy from 1989-1992 and Deputy Chief of Staff for President George H.W. Bush in...

Istrouma schools began in a two room house in 1917 in North Baton Rouge. As time went on, the student population grew steadily and outpaced the growth of the faculty. A number of buildings and hand-me-down materials were haphazardly obtained...

Istrouma schools began in a two room house in 1917 in North Baton Rouge. As time went on, the student population grew steadily and outpaced the growth of the faculty. A number of buildings and hand-me-down materials were haphazardly obtained...

Officers of the district meeting of the Horizon Club (older branch of the Camp Fire Girls) at the annual meeting, 1957, held at Pleasant Hall on the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La. (L. to r.) Suzanne Leequette, Port Author, Tx.;...

Pride Schoolhouse was formed in East Baton Rouge Parish in the late 1800s. Pride High School became a graded school in 1907. In 1981 under U.S. District Judge John V. Parker’s desegregation order, Pride High School (a predominantly white school)...

Reverend Lionel Lee, Sr. (January 1, 1930- July 25, 2001). Past Secretary General of the Fourth District Missionary Baptist Church, was pastor of Shady Grove, Evening Star and St. Joseph Baptist Churches. He was a prolific writer, and an active...